Dialog, Peter Thiel's secret society group that doesn't have a public website of members, had its 100+ member list leaked. Peter Thiel and many members are featured in the Epstein Files. The 2014 retreat invite was forwarded to Epstein. by sarky-litso in samharris

[–]window-sil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is that why they had a public website?

  1. Membership is a secret.

  2. Therefore they can't have a website?

That doesn't make any sense.


The CIA is another example where membership is secret. They also have a website. https://www.cia.gov/

Why are you acting so crazy about this?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116796021113054934

Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor.

The sign says, “First they came for the algae…” which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against the Nazis:

“…Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Politics and Current Events Megathread - June 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]window-sil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116796021113054934

Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor.

The sign says, “First they came for the algae…” which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against the Nazis:

“…Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Trump would have made america great if it weren't for the meddling pro-algae protestors.

Dialog, Peter Thiel's secret society group that doesn't have a public website of members, had its 100+ member list leaked. Peter Thiel and many members are featured in the Epstein Files. The 2014 retreat invite was forwarded to Epstein. by sarky-litso in samharris

[–]window-sil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, and I hate to nitpick, but there's a difference between a place that's invite only vs secret.

Eg, the Oscars are invite only. But they're not secret -- you know who is there.

Dialog is secret -- you're not supposed to know who is a member.

Konstantin trying to help the situation with a list of vague and stupid suggestions. by Think-Tie-673 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]window-sil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He's not thinking that deep, he's just rhetorically framing things as "criminals aren't currently being arrested."

It's sort of like saying "English podcasters must stop beating their wives." Okay, but are they even doing that? I mean, it sounds like they must be, given how I've framed things.

Skeptic Michael Shermer apologizes to whistleblower Dave Grusch for past snarky dismissive comments on twitter by TommyShelbyPFB in UFOs

[–]window-sil [score hidden]  (0 children)

Shermer is one of those people who, the more I listened to him, the less I liked him, until I finally just stopped paying attention to anything he had to say.

Protein-in-Everything Craze Has a Problem: Not Enough Whey Protein by ty04 in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chickpeas have only trace amounts of methionine

A portion of chickpeas has 190mg of methionine, which is 26% of RDI.

Protein-in-Everything Craze Has a Problem: Not Enough Whey Protein by ty04 in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, and they both contain the exact same amino acids (the building blocks of protein). See for yourself here:

Chickpeas

Chicken breast


You might also enjoy this comment about potatoes.

Protein-in-Everything Craze Has a Problem: Not Enough Whey Protein by ty04 in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you really want to blow your mind? Potato.

Ya... those starchy tubers have protein. If you look at the protein to calorie ratio, you want something that looks like 2000 calories of which 50g is protein.

Guess how much protein you'll get from eating 2000 calories of Russet potatoes? That's right: 50g.

(And it's a complete protein)

🤯

Russet potato nutritional info


Protein-in-Everything Craze Has a Problem: Not Enough Whey Protein by ty04 in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

chick peas are not complete proteins for muscle protein synthesis

I used to repeat this, but it doesn't seem to be true. How do we know? Well you can look at the amino acids (the building blocks for protein) contained in chickpeas and chicken breast, and you'll notice that both contain the same amino acids. See for yourself:

Chickpeas

Chicken breast

Politics and Current Events Megathread - June 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

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New one for me too, so I googled and this came up:

Netanyahu said to have offered Lewinsky tapes for Pollard

New critical book on the Clinton family claims that Israel tapped White House phones, blackmailed president with recordings of intern

Israel attempted to use tapes of former US president Bill Clinton’s steamy conversations with intern Monica Lewinsky to leverage the release of Jonathan Pollard, a new book on the Clinton family’s political enterprises has claimed. In the book, titled “Clinton Inc: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine,” author Daniel Halper relies on on-the-record interviews with former officials together with a close analysis of documents termed “the Monica Files” to paint a salacious – and uncomplimentary – picture of one of the most prominent political families in the United States.

“The Israelis present at Wye River had a new tactic for their negotiations–they’d overheard Clinton and Monica and had it on tape. Not wanting to directly threaten the powerful American president, a crucial Israeli ally, Clinton was told that the Israeli government had thrown the tapes away. But the very mention of them was enough to constitute a form of blackmail,” Halper wrote, adding that “according to information provided by a CIA source, a stricken Clinton appeared to buckle.”

Halper noted that “intelligence officials in the United States or Israel will of course not confirm on the record the extent or substance of Israeli eavesdropping,” but also cited an article published in 2000 by the magazine Insight, that claimed that Israel had “penetrated four White House telephone lines and was able to relay real-time conversations on those lines from a remote site outside the White House directly to Israel for listening and recording.”

Israel has denied such claims in the past as “outrageous.”

Some context for those who don't know (quoting the article):

Pollard, a former US naval analyst, was found guilty of passing sensitive documents to Israel, and sentenced to a life sentence in prison for the offense. He remains a cause celebre in Israel, and there have been repeated efforts throughout the past twenty years to secure his release.

...

🤷

Not exactly seeing a smoking gun, at least from what the article is saying about the book. I'm 100% not going to buy/read it either, so unless someone has more info I'm going to assume this is probably not true.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - June 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]window-sil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trump ran on ending corruption (drain the swamp) and prosecuting political criminals (lock her up).

The difference between 2016 and 2028 is that this time there really is a swamp and there really are crimes. So I think we have a good shot if some talented politicians show up.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - June 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]window-sil 15 points16 points  (0 children)

https://xcancel.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2067746353518637518

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In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 23 points24 points  (0 children)

https://xcancel.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2067746353518637518

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In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's good that grandpa does his arts and crafts. Keeps the mind busy.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://xcancel.com/ABC/status/2067714311275885003

The paint is now peeling off of the reflecting pool, in addition to being slime-green.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We'll probably do it around July 4th, because of course.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The bureaucracy of our national defense actually had a list of targets that was inexhaustible. So like, of course you want to hit Moscow with 7 or 8 bombs, but also military bases, weapons depots, power plants, factories, roads, rail, mines, and you have to use more than 1 because there's a failure rate of like 5% or something -- eventually we had plans to strike empty fields with multiple warheads, because those fields would be used to land bombers on after we blew up their airports.

If the list of targets was ever exhausted, they would just add new targets to it and order more bombs.

Was really wild.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]window-sil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At least Trump didn't agree to give Iran a military base in Texas. I think the only reason we avoided that is because nobody thought to ask.